Xanthippe

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  birthday mugshot

  by stan livedeath in

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  a close friend got me this very thoughtful birthday present.

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  Xanthippe

  Happy Birthday! Leap day baby? Are you only about fifteen then? 🎉🎈🍺🎂🎁
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  What happens when we become "God"?

  by WireRider in

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  humans are doing genetic research on enormous scales.

  do you want your baby to have brown or blonde hair?

  weed out genetic imperfections?

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  If genetic engineering means we can prevent Down Syndrome, muscular Dystrophy, cystic fibrosis and haemophilia think of the heartache that would save.

  Before we go to other planets we have a few problems here to sort out first. The thought of us finding an earthlike planet and pouring pollution into its oceans, damaging the ozone layer and heating it up until its ice caps melt just so we can keep manufacturing more and more stuff horrifies me. If there is a more advanced alien race out there they should ground us until we grow up.
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  Are we using too many acronyms?

  by Coded Logic in

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  ever wondered how your post might read to someone who's new to this site?.

  (may take you a sec to get the real acronyms that are being used).

  well i've noticed a pattern where a lot of ostentatious peoples that talk about their tough ass tax troubles only relate it to it as a problem that's being perpetrated by the federal & democratic states.

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  Are we using too many acronyms?

  No I don't think so. Since learning TTATT and leaving the WTS we were closely followed by my FIL and my MIL. He was COBE for a while but read CoC and realised the GB were just running a publishing company, the WTS. We Da'ed and apart from a funeral I haven't been to a KH or RC for 27 years. 😀

  There you go FSAL

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/370130001/index-acronyms-help-new-forumers?page=2&size=20
  
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  Hello Everybody

  by Thomas the Bill Engine in

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  i didn't see an introduction forum anywhere but i thought it would be weird to start posting without first introducing myself so, here we are.

  i'm 15, and i've been looking for a place to discuss my thoughts on the religion that i'm pretty much stuck in at the moment.

  my mom and dad divorced over their different beliefs over a year ago (my mom is jw and my dad is an very knowledgeable apostate, so you can see how they would fight over it), and since then i've stopped believing altogether.. just thought i'd say hello.

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  Hi Thomas. Well done waking up so young, I wish I had. Get busy planning to be financially independent as soon as you can. You are eighteen in three years. I know it seems a long way off but you need to be able to stand on your own two feet if you mother doesn't wake up. Start making friends at school so you have a support circle. Good to have you here and looking forward to your posts.
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  A WRITER (me) looks at the "character GOD" from the standpoint of bad writing

  by Terry in

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  i pay attention to what other writers write about writing.

  writers always have limits--even writers of fiction.. do you choose to live in a world where pigs fly and deuces are wild?

  that would be an imaginary world.. do you choose to live in a world where god rules?

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  All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.
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  Got in a bad wreck.....uuugh

  by brandnew in

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  just happy to be alive....can barely move ☺.. a girl who just got her license , and a new suv....thought it might be cool to pass the person in front of her....at a curve......on a two way road!!!!!😠😠😠.

  very mad puppy.

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  Get some rest and you'll soon feel all brandnew x
  
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  A WRITER (me) looks at the "character GOD" from the standpoint of bad writing

  by Terry in

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  i pay attention to what other writers write about writing.

  writers always have limits--even writers of fiction.. do you choose to live in a world where pigs fly and deuces are wild?

  that would be an imaginary world.. do you choose to live in a world where god rules?

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  Yes I found the God of the OT to be very 'human' a jealous God, cruel enough to insist on the death of babies and the animals of people who inconveniently lived in the 'promised' land. Just like the very 'human' Greek and Roman Gods. Conversely I thought the Jesus of the NT was just a non-person, barely there, two-dimentional. Poor characterisation indeed.

  Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad just before we left really helped me wake up. Just because we have found Troy in modern Turkey does that mean Achilles existed and had miraculous escapes from death because of being dipped in the river Styx? Or that the Trojan war was started by Paris carrying off Helen, the daughter of Leda and the God Zeus?

  So why be excited about finding Ur or the Hittites? It doesn't make the Bible stories true. Ancient people loved to mix up mythological heroes with real events. They loved to claim a hero or God for their own city or country.

  It's still excellent writing though, I love Homer. The wine dark sea. White-armed Hera and all those strong, beautiful warriors. Who wants to read about ugly people doing boring things anyway? Now we have soap operas for that.
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  The soldiers on guard at Jesus tomb didn't become believers, why in the hell not?

  by James Mixon in

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  you are on guard at jesus sealed tomb.

  all of a sudden a great earthquake occurs and an angel.

  wearing a dazzling outfit descends from above like lightning and this angel single handedly rolls away.

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  They would have been treated as apostates from the cult of Mithras if they started believing in Jesus. They would have been shunned, crucified and then put on bread and water for a week.
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  Do you still believe in God?

  by FormerlySandL in

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  i never thought i would admit it, but i don't.

  i might superstitiously have some kind of doubt but digging a bit deeper in my heart i really don't believe in god.

  as a human i could never just sit and watch people be tortured, live years of abuse, suffer from illness and disabilities and all the other awful things people have to endure day after day without doing something about it.

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  If we have good heart - even if we are total unbelievers but are sincere in that unbelief - then that is fertile ground for following when truth becomes apparent, truth which we have missed during our earlier years. When God intervenes, the question of religion will be pointless, as the Christ will guide us without the need for a "middleman". The problem is whether we - individually - will want to.

  Good evening Acts. That's great. I have a good heart and I am totally sincere in that unbelief. If God intervenes with Christ I will be happy to hear their guidance when truth becomes apparent as you put it. Meanwhile - I am an atheist.
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  Narcissistic personality disorder and the dubs

  by purrpurr in

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  i've recently started to research npd.

  having identified several of my family members as having it ( no wonder we're such a ¿***#@**!!!!

  up family)there's huge similarities between the borg and individual members of the cong as well i've noticed.the over whelming love of self, the need to believe in a grandiose fictional version of themselves, always striving for more power and wealth, being unable to stand any criticism, and then there's the manipulation of the victims too.i could be wrong i guess but what thoughts do you guys have about it?

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  Isn't there something a bit odd about a classification system that so freely uses the word "tendencies" to hedge its bets? We wouldn't say "I've not actually got a cold but I've got cold like tendencies today". I do wonder what's going on in psychology.

  Thank god they hedge their bets now. Rufus May is a British clinical psychologist best known for using his own experiences of being a psychiatric patient to promote alternative recovery approaches for those experiencing psychotic symptoms.

  I saw a BBC documentary about his work called The Doctor who Hears Voices. May was helping a young doctor who was hearing voices, without revealing her identity which would have ended her career. She got better because it was a temporary list of symptoms or 'tendencies' caused by working long hours as a junior doctor, she was not schizophrenic. The mind doctors are being much more cautious about diagnoses thank goodness.